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  Re: Since the Invisible Orchid has not asked any questions for awhile.  
From: Stephen
Date: 4 Sep 2015 15:40:01
Message: <web.55e9f2c18eed6fed551d0f00@news.povray.org>
Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote:
> Stephen <mca### [at] aolcom> wrote:
> > Cannot be done. :-(
> > I forgot that as your speed increases your mass increases.
>
> Your speed increases relative to what?
>
Your initial velocity. V0


> You are always at rest relative to yourself. Your mass doesn't increase
> from your own perspective, no matter what something else measures your
> speed to be. (From your own perspective it's that external observer's
> mass that's increasing, not yours.)
>

That is a valid way of looking at it.

You feel not the force of acceleration but the force of the rest of the
universe's mass increasing.


> --
>                                                           - Warp


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